Ambassadors for change

This activity is suitable for a wide range of abilities, from KS2 to KS4 students. 

Description: 

TfL Travel for Life encourages children to walk, cycle and scoot more, and to influence other parents and students to choose active travel, and to campaign for changes to our local streets. 

This exciting activity has been designed by Poet and facilitator Francesca Beard to encourage student engagement in active and sustainable travel through the spoken word. Francesca works with inspiring teachers and brilliant young people in primary and secondary schools across London and believes that education is the single most powerful agent of positive social change.   

The main objectives of the lesson: 

• To explore poetic language using a simple framework as a starting point for different outcomes
• To celebrate the diversity of individual experiences and responses to our environment
• To experiment with poetic techniques such as repetition, rhythm and rhyme
• To use our voices and words to communicate with our community as sustainability leaders

Some Top Tips for session delivery: 

‘The best person in the whole world to write this piece is you because no-one knows more about your own life and feelings than you.’  

‘Poetry is not fact or fiction, it’s somewhere in between, so you can use examples from your own life and make stuff up based on your own experience.’  

‘Sometimes, a good way to learn is to make mistakes and take chances – it’s not safe to do that when you are learning how to cross a road or build an aeroplane but it’s a great way to learn how to be an artist.’